j8 BARLEY. 3, 



Now, even public malt boufes are unknown j 

 the entire bufinefs of malting being in the 

 hands of profeflional MALTSTERS ; who buy 

 the barley of the farmer, ami fell him the 

 malt which he may want for his own private 

 ufe. 



OATS. 



LINNEUS includes the whole tribe of 

 cultivated oats in the fpecies AVEKA fctiva. 



The VARIETIES formerly cultivated in this 

 Diitrict were the " SLOW OAT" and the 

 " HASTY OAT;" both of them confidered as 

 of Scotch extraction. 



At preient the forts principally in ufe are, 



i. " POLAND OATS:" a fhort, plump 

 grain ; but the thickncfs of its fkin feems to 

 Jiave brought it into difrepute among attentive 

 farmers. Moftly fingle; no awn ; ftraw fhort. 



2. FRJJ-ZLAND 



